Author: Harry Longueville JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Essays and Papers on Literary and Historical Subjects
Author: Harry Longueville JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Essays and Papers on Literary and Historical Subjects
Author: Harry Longueville JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Essays and Papers on literary and historical subjects ... Reprinted ... from “Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine” and other periodicals
Author: Harry Longueville JONESEssays: Literary, Critical and Historical
Author: Thomas O'HaganPublisher: Toronto, W. Briggs
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings
Author: Noah WebsterPublisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Collected Papers
Author: Frederick D. MalkinsonPublisher:
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Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Speeches given by the author between 1991 and 2009 at either The Chicago Literary Club or The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago.
Why I Write
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724263
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh ...
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings on Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects
Author: Noah WebsterPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146559986X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Education of youth is, in all governments, an object of the first consequence. The impressions received in early life, usually form the characters of individuals; a union of which forms the general character of a nation. The mode of Education and the arts taught to youth, have, in every nation, been adapted to its particular stage of society or local circumstances. In the martial ages of Greece, the principal study of its Legislators was, to acquaint the young men with the use of arms, to inspire them with an undaunted courage, and to form in the hearts of both sexes, an invincible attachment to their country. Such was the effect of their regulations for these purposes, that the very women of Sparta and Athens, would reproach their own sons, for surviving their companions who fell in the field of battle. Among the warlike Scythians, every male was not only taught to use arms for attack and defence; but was obliged to sleep in the field, to carry heavy burthens, and to climb rocks and precipices, in order to habituate himself to hardships, fatigue and danger. In Persia, during the flourishing reign of the great Cyrus, the Education of youth, according to Xenophon, formed a principal branch of the regulations of the empire. The young men were divided into classes, each of which had some particular duties to perform, for which they were qualified by previous instructions and exercise. While nations are in a barbarous state, they have few wants, and consequently few arts. Their principal objects are, defence and subsistence; the Education of a savage therefore extends little farther, than to enable him to use, with dexterity, a bow and a tomahawk. But in the progress of manners and of arts, war ceases to be the employment of whole nations; it becomes the business of a few, who are paid for defending their country. Artificial wants multiply the number of occupations; and these require a great diversity in the mode of Education. Every youth must be instructed in the business by which he is to procure subsistence. Even the civilities of behavior, in polished society, become a science; a bow and a curtesy are taught with as much care and precision, as the elements of Mathematics. Education proceeds therefore, by gradual advances, from simplicity to corruption. Its first object, among rude nations, is safety; its next, utility; it afterwards extends to convenience; and among the opulent part of civilized nations, it is directed principally to show and amusement.